Dance Music Digital Distribution

Off Limits’ catalogue and distributed label are now being ingested into the 3 top streaming services, with a global reach.

With access to millions of songs in high quality audio through your computer, on your mobile device and beyond, Spotify makes it easier than ever for music fans to play and share music legally. All you need to do is create a Spotify account and download the streaming music player.
Currently available on selected territories only. Mainly Europe and US.

All of the above service integrate tightly with Facebook, so that you can log in through your facebook credentials, and can disseminate and share your listenings with your friends / network.

THe srvices feature a free- entry level model, where you can stream all the tracks with sponsored audio ads. You can then move to subscription plans: desktop ad-free and/or a plan that allows you to stream the catalogue to your mobile device.

It’s been a extremely busy december, delivering lots of releases for Flat Frog and a few videos for Pelussje and PowerFrancers + D-Bag (with huge results on youtube views).

We’re beginning 2011 with a string of new releases from our distributed labels.
Off Limits’ “Dance all night” (by Manu LJ, with remixes from Favretto and La Maison Derriere)
Flat Frog’s “Olga” (by Les Trashick and D-Bag, and a remix by Pelussje)
Cheers up for Off Limits’ label page on Beatport.

In the pipeline: some great iTunes ringtones, finally available for you to download and use directly through your iPhone (without passing through the iTunes conversion process).
More news from Beatport coming next (a complete re-design is expected this year).
And finally, available soon the reporting page of Off Limits sales, with the definitive analysis and ‘ask the Oracle’ Tool.

The duo comes into the scene with a bloody release (bloody is the right term, the EP is called “Sangre“, which in spanish means exactly “blood”).
Supported by DJs like Bob Rifo (from The Bloody Beetroots /Deathcrew77), Benny Benassi, Cyberpunkers, Edu K, Belzebass to name a few, the tracks are set to fire the dancefloors.

A new release by Favretto, including remixes from Jean Claude Ades and La Maison Derriere.
Featured on iTunes in the ‘New Content’ section, the release delivers a full range of remixes, covering the most different styles and genres.

It would be veeeeery nice if you could customize your iPhone 4 (or 3GS,3G, or 2, actually whatever phone you use) with a ringtone which is only yours, isn’t it?

Off Limits delivered a set of complete packages for your phone. Spanning from ‘electro’ ringtones to more classical-sofisticated tones and finally to more ‘poppy’ sounds.
Moreover, in the iTunes version of the release, every package recently delivered comes with a set of ready-made ringtones taken from the tracks.

Apple hasn’t made it easy for you to customize your phone with these sets of ringtones but there’s a workaround. It’s not difficult and you don’t need anything except iTunes and an iPhone. The tutorial is clearly aimed at iPhones, as it’s tied to iTunes, anyway, if you convert the ringtones to the MP3 format and your phone supports that format, you’ll be able to use that ringtones even on your mobile device.

Let’s make things easier. Here’s the video tutorial (the sound track is a collection of some of the ringtones you can find on the compilations, which are called ‘i-Tones‘. Search for them on the iTunes store.

The steps are easy and we re-write tem heredown:
1 – Go to iTunes and get the ringtones. i-Tones vol. 1, i-Tones vol. 2, i-Tones vol.3 … or search for ‘i-Tones and navigate through the available audios
2 – Once downloaded the file, you’ll have to convert it to a ‘iPhone ready’ format. Convert it to ‘AAC format’.
You can do this by going to the “Advanced” Menu on iTunes and then choosing ‘Create AAC version’. If you find a different encoding (i.e. “Create MP3 version”, you have to set the compression format in iTunes preferences. It is necessary to convert it to an AAC file, otherwise it won’t be playing on your iPhone).
3 – Drag the file you just converted out of iTunes, and save it to the desktop, for example. Rename the extension of the file to ‘m4r’ (it was ‘m4a’)
4 – Re-drag the newly named file into i-Tunes. A new ‘source’ will appear: Ringtones.
5 – Connect your iPhone to your Mac/Pc and in the available tabs a ‘ringtone’ tab will appear, so that you can choose and transfer to your phone the ringtone you just created.
6 – Open the Settings of your iPhone, then tap ‘Sounds’, then ‘Ringtone’ and ther you’ll see te list of available ringtones for your telephone, under the ‘Custom’ group.
7 – It’s done!Now go and spread the word!